Chapter 140

PHA – Chapter 140 – It Is People Like You Who Give Heroes a Bad Name

As its name suggested, a remnant soul was only one part of a complete soul. Although a remnant soul would retain the complete soul’s personality and emotions, it would only hold a portion of the complete soul’s abilities and memories.

There were many spells related to remnant souls. However, as it was incredibly cruel to tear a person’s soul into pieces, most of these spells had been lost in time. In modern times, only books on magical knowledge would mention these spells from time to time.

Of course, just because such spells no longer existed didn’t mean that they didn’t exist in the past. Meanwhile, the Seventh Hero’s era dated back over a thousand years ago. So, the Elven Hero might have possessed a magic that allowed him to segment his soul to create a remnant soul.

Alice could also guess why the Seventh Hero had done such a painful thing to himself. It should be something similar to what one would see in some romance novels. The Elven Hero must’ve known that he couldn’t live for much longer, so he separated one part of his soul and attached it to a certain object, using this remnant soul to protect his girlfriend in his place.

Meanwhile, even after a Hero had died, he would still be one part of the world’s laws. So, Filia, who received the Seventh Hero’s gaze, would receive blessings from the world to a certain degree, allowing her to avoid minor misfortunes and live her life peacefully.

Of course, in front of Alice, the harbinger of disasters created by God, the minor luck the Seventh Hero’s remnant soul provided was practically negligible.

Filia didn’t carry many things on her. Other than her clothes, the only other objects she had on her were:

A very plain hairpin.

A silver ring.

An inconspicuous longsword.

Based on Alice’s previous speculation, she naturally set her sights on the ring on Filia’s right pinky first. After all, when one talked about items related to lovers, it would have to be rings, right?

Although Alice felt that removing a person’s ring was rather rude, she still felt it necessary. Firstly, she wanted to talk to the Seventh Hero about the Demon King’s Power. Secondly, she wanted to ask the Seventh Hero to think about the big picture and not mind her action of knocking Filia unconscious.

After all, a remnant soul might have lost a lot of its abilities and memories, but it functioned mainly the same as a complete soul. It could still perceive things happening in the outside world and analyze them.

In other words, the Seventh Hero’s remnant soul had seen the entire process of Alice knocking Filia unconscious. If Alice didn’t think of a way to keep his mouth shut, Filia might find out that she was the one who knocked her unconscious after waking up.

So, after muttering a soft apology, Alice reached out for the silver ring and removed it from Filia’s right pinky. Then, she gripped it in her right hand.

No matter how small an object was, so long as Alice could wield it in her right hand, her right hand would recognize it as a weapon. Naturally, this silver ring was no exception.

…

[Weapon: Hero Abel’s Custom-Made Silver Ring]

[Quality: Garbage]

[Effect: Mana +1]

[Additional Effect: None]

…

Alice was stunned. The ring’s weapon information was a tad bit different from what she imagined. Although an object housing a remnant soul definitely wouldn’t be as high-quality as Kristine’s Soul Gathering Tablet and Grant’s Radioactive Soul Stone, how could it be rated as Garbage?

Moreover, the ring didn’t have any additional effects. In other words, this ring was truly nothing more than an ordinary silver ring, and it did not house a remnant soul. Thus, it didn’t have any use in combat, and her right hand had judged the ring as garbage.

This doesn’t make sense. Could it be that the remnant soul is hiding in Filia’s body and not in her possessions? Alice frowned as she put back the silver ring on Filia’s right pinky, confusion coloring her face. But that shouldn’t be the case. If the remnant soul is hiding in Filia’s body, it should’ve been shown in her weapon description.

The description of the Hero’s Gaze skill had clearly indicated that Filia was receiving the Hero’s attention. It did not state that the Hero’s remnant soul was inhabiting her body. In that case, this remnant soul must be attached to an external object on the elf’s body.

After pondering for a moment, Alice reached out for Filia’s hairpin, gently removed it from the elf’s light-green hair, and held it in her right hand.

…

[Weapon: Normal Wooden Hairpin]

[Quality: Garbage]

[Effect: Mind +1]

[Additional Effect: None]

…

All were equal under Alice’s right hand. It didn’t matter whether an object was made of silver or wood. The object was garbage if it didn’t serve any practical purpose. Meanwhile, the wooden hairpin evidently did not house a remnant soul, either.

Of course, there was also the possibility that the Hero named Abel had found some way to attach his soul to materials that couldn’t house souls originally. So, he didn’t require special items such as the Soul Gathering Tablet and Radioactive Soul Stone to house his remnant soul.

However, so long as the Seventh Hero had hidden his soul inside an object, Alice believed that her right hand could find it.

After returning Filia’s hairpin to its original position, Alice removed the longsword hanging by Filia’s side and unsheathed it from its scabbard. Then, she inspected both items with her right hand.

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[Weapon: Elven Guard Captain’s Longsword]

[Quality: Fine]

[Effect: Strength +30, Control +30]

[Additional Effect:

Sword Edge (Passive Skill. Your swordsmanship proficiency is increased by 5%, and destructive power when using a sword is increased by 5%);

Wind Slash (Active Skill. Execute a slash with a tearing ability using the longsword and wind mana.)]

…

The longsword’s stats were rather normal, and it looked like it was a mass-produced item. Seeing that it was of a similar quality to the magic robes the March Academy distributed to all of its students, it could be seen that the elves weren’t particularly wealthy. After all, this was the guard captain’s weapon they were talking about.

…

[Weapon: Slightly Old Iron Scabbard]

[Quality: Garbage]

[Effect: Strength +1]

[Additional Effect: None]

…

The scabbard was even more useless.

This situation put Alice in a bind. These were all the items Alice could find on Filia, yet none of them housed the remnant soul she sought. In that case, where else could the remnant soul be hiding?

While Alice was scratching her head, realization suddenly dawned upon her. Other than Filia’s ring, hairpin, sword, and scabbard, there were still other things that could be considered external items.

But there’s no way he would hide there of all places, right?

Although doubtful, Alice still decided to verify her conjecture, removed Filia’s heavy armor, and touched every individual piece one after another.

However, similar to the sword, every piece of armor was rated Fine, and none of them housed a remnant soul.

Next, Alice skillfully liberated Filia of her panties, her skillfulness making it seem as if she had done it hundreds and thousands of times before. However, that wasn’t the case at all. She had only become so skilled at stripping the panties of others because several of the times she had done so was when she was in a life or death situation. Thus, her brain had committed those situations to memory, and she was able to achieve such skillful proficiency in the art of panty stripping.

Meanwhile, after Alice wielded the white panties in her right hand, the underwear’s weapon information promptly appeared in her mind.

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[Weapon: Soft White Underwear]

[Quality: Artifact]

[Effect: Strength +5000, Constitution +5000, Speed +5000, Mind +5000, Control +5000, Mana +5000]

[Additional Effect:

Mental Abnormality (Passive Skill. You will not be affected by mind magic);

Absolute Defense (Passive Skill. You will not be hurt by physical attacks);

Purification Blade (Active Skill. Upon use, releases a blade of light that permanently liberates the target’s soul);

Hero’s Remnant Soul (Passive Skill. This weapon that houses a Hero’s remnant soul will bring you courage in battle, giving you a small increase in your Mind stat and luck.)]